Welcome!

I have decided that my blog (this thing here: Katy's thoughts) - the sole purpose of which is basically grumbling about life in general - isn't the right place for my happier stuff. Sunday dinners and the random brunch or lunch are my happier stuff.

I started Sunday dinners a few years ago. Well, actually, they started over a decade ago without any of my doing but since I moved to California in 2009, I have re-started the tradition here. Now I host them most Sundays. Sunday dinner is a time for good friends to come together to enjoy good food & drink, and great company. It's also a nice way to end the weekend and start the week.

Since I have a very hard time - I think it might be a physical and mental impossibility actually - cooking for a small number of people.Therefore, depending on how many folks show up, there are leftovers for whomever wants them. Personally, I like leftovers and having some during the week makes the week that much easier (people who refuse to eat leftovers are weird to me). So YAY! I can can ignore that impossible challenge of cooking for fewer people than would make up a small army. (Most of the recipes I post are for the standard 4 to 6 servings so I usually double or triple them as needed.)

I have to warn you: I don't have much of a sweet tooth so you probably won't see (m)any recipes along those lines here but you'll see lots of main dishes and sides. I try not to repeat meals too frequently so it's a fun challenge to find new ideas or old ones I haven't tried in a while. I will always let you know how the recipe came to be in my rotation, i.e. the source of said recipe will be disclosed. I'm not in the business of taking credit I don't deserve, plus there are some pretty amazing cooks out there and who am I to deprive you of other stuff they make that you might like? 

Everything will have labels so you can search for things like "main dish" or "chicken" or "dinner" and the like. 

Pictures. Hm. I usually put my phone away as soon as everyone I'm expecting has arrived and certainly by the time we sit down to eat so I will probably often forget to take pictures of the food. I'll try to remember though. I like pictures. 

I will also try to add recipes regularly, both as I come across old ones and as I make them so there will (hopefully) be some regularity to my posts but we'll see about that.

Enjoy and please feel free to steal, substitute, add to, or for that matter change completely any of these recipes to your liking as you cook them. 

And most importantly, have fun!

Now, who wants leftovers?